Announcements
April 16, 2020
New Repository Helps Faculty Stay on Tenure Track During COVID-19
Before Arkansas had its first COVID-19 case, the reality of the impending pandemic was already setting in for UAMS faculty as cancellations for scientific conferences worldwide were announced one after another like falling dominos. For scientists and academics, presenting to their peers at conferences is one of the main ways other than publications that they…
April 15, 2020
UAMS Students Collect Personal Protective Equipment for Health Care Workers
LITTLE ROCK – Students from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in both central Arkansas and Northwest Arkansas are collecting personal protective equipment (PPE) to distribute to health care workers throughout the state. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a critical national shortage of masks, surgical gowns and eye gear desperately needed by doctors,…
April 13, 2020
Pathology Chair Jennifer Hunt, M.D., Voted Outstanding Woman Faculty
Jennifer Hunt, M.D., has been voted Outstanding Woman Faculty 2020 by her peers at UAMS as a leader, mentor and nationally recognized champion for women in medicine. Hunt is chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Sciences in the College of Medicine at UAMS. In addition to mentoring individual students and faculty, she has…
Four Tips for Effectively Working from Home
With a number of our employees working from home, the Employee Assistance Program has a few tips to help make the experience less stressful and more productive.
April 8, 2020
Seven Receive Inaugural Team Science Awards
The UAMS Translational Research Institute today announced its first Team Science Voucher Program recipients. The voucher program aims to increase the quantity, quality and effectiveness of cross-disciplinary research at UAMS. Awards of up to $50,000 went to seven UAMS teams from a pool of 26 applications. A study section (group) of 10 UAMS faculty reviewers…
April 3, 2020
UAMS Provides COVID-19 Screening to Helena, Delta Residents
As the van carrying UAMS health care professionals arrived in Helena early April 2, residents of Helena and the surrounding Delta region were already lining up in their vehicles to receive the drive-through COVID-19 evaluation UAMS was about to provide. By 9:45 a.m., the team from the main campus in Little Rock and from UAMS…
Johnathan Goree, M.D., Named Arkansas Physician of the Year by Arkansas Business
Johnathan H. Goree, M.D., an anesthesiologist who specializes in chronic pain and director of the Chronic Pain Division at UAMS was named Arkansas Physician of the Year on April 2 at the Arkansas Business Healthcare Heroes celebration. The annual awards event was held virtually on YouTube because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In presenting the awards,…
March 31, 2020
Caregiver Support Group Held on Thursdays — Now on Zoom
All types of caregivers are invited to attend a Caregiver Support Group from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Thursday in the F7 Conference Room, Room F7009.
March 24, 2020
Kindness Eases COVID-19 Disruption of Family Vacation
Over the past year, UAMS has cultivated a culture of kindness and during these hard times of uncertainty, acts of kindness – no matter how small – help keep us sane. During this time, we need to depend on each other, band together, and continue to share acts of kindness to one another. We can all use a little positive news as we struggle to make sense of COVID-19.
March 20, 2020
Match Day Goes Virtual: COVID-19 Changes, but Can’t Stop Spirit Behind COM Celebration
Match Day is always bittersweet, but the Class of 2020 tried to emphasize the sweet over the bitter at this year’s celebration despite the swirling context of a global pandemic and its unprecedented disruptions to daily life. There were still tears — but they were tears of joy, accomplishment and hard work paid off. And…
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